We tend to believe that stop-motion animation is something born in recent years, but the truth is that came to light around the same time as cinema itself: at the beginning of the 1900s, ‘The Humpty Dumpty Circus’ (now lost) became one of the first pieces of this art in which everyone from Tim Burton (and, above all, Henry Selick) to Guillermo del Toro have fallen.
And in all these years, we’ve never seen a story so grotesque and, at the same time, innocent, like ‘Oink Oink’.
Lechonk, I choose you
‘Oink Oink’ is a film that seems simple and childish in its content (a girl must save a pig from ending up turned into sausages) but that It surprises with an unusual coarseness in the new batch of children’s cinema. Do not take the word “uncouth” as a negative. It lacks finesse and there is an overdose of excrement everywhere, but in times of extreme child protection it is almost a breath of fresh air.
Of course, If there is something that Mascha Halberstad’s film does not have, it is subtlety. Neither in his portrayal of the characters, who oscillate between the very bad bad and the very good good ones, nor in the mood of, as Los Punkitos would sing, ‘Poop, ass, fart, piss’, nor in a lesson on veganism that does not leave half measures. If what you were looking for was a movie full of love for animals but also having an adult touch, ‘Oink Oink’ is not what you were looking for.
And it is that the Dutch film does not drink from Pixar in its attempt to reach the whole family in different layers, or from Illumination with humor based on the classic Buster Keaton slapstick stylebut from an overwhelmingly childish cinema, which resists treating children as if they were passive entities but which does not rule out at any time everything that once made you laugh when you were less than ten years old.
wow shit
There is something very positive for parents in the fact that the film never loses its childish tone and flatulent gag: ‘Oink Oink’ never loses its direction and both its animation and its designs are downright charming. Yes, you will be able to prevent from minute one each turn, each surprise attempt and each gag, but at the same time It is such an innocent film that it is impossible not to be carried away by its particular beauty.
Far from trying to solve the world or offer an epic adventure through various places, ‘Oink Oink’ takes place entirely in the same small town. You don’t always need a great concept to make a movie work. (ask ‘Strange World’ how it was to think big) and, although it falls far short of the levels of greatness of other current animated films, it is easy to be captivated by that protagonist who It makes the world at least a little bit better.
If you’re an adult with no kids thinking about going to see this movie, frankly, I’d recommend taking a look at the rest of the lineup: It’s only 72 minutes long, but once he’s shown his cards in the first act, he never reconverts or changes enough as to get passionate. Yes, it can be seen, it is very difficult to leave with a bad taste in your mouth (it depends, above all, on your tolerance for jokes about diarrhea), but only children will be able to fully squeeze it.
Oink the farting pig
I’ve tried not to open the melon, but it’s impossible not to: the humor of ‘Oink Oink’ is… nasty. The first time we see the little pig doing its business on top of someone, we will laugh more or less complicitly and sarcastically, but when it becomes the only running gag it reaches a point of no return, downright rude. In this sense, the third act is not separated too much in disgust from Don Creosote’s scene in ‘The meaning of life’: You have never seen a children’s film that ends in such an allegedly rude way.
And this is good! The film may not have convinced me, but I am not its audience. Films like ‘Oink Oink’ have not been made for 30-year-olds, but for children orphans of profanity in the style of ‘Los Megabebés’ or ‘Ren and Stimpy’: an oasis that also tries to raise awareness about the power of not eating meat with the subtlety of a steamroller and the insistence of a jackhammer.
‘Oink Oink’ isn’t the best movie of the year, and I haven’t even particularly enjoyed it, but I am very glad of its existence. Its intentions are good, its characters endearing, its animation delicious, and its target audience will enjoy it if they’ve had enough of CGI.
You can see in each shot the love that has been put to carry it out And, honestly, it meets its goal. Who am I to say it’s not a big deal or to judge an animated film harshly for overplaying the humor of a pig with diarrhea?
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